| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Seventh Decade
Sonnet X. I meet not mine, by others’ discontent | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | I MEET not mine, by others’ discontent. | |
| For none compares with me in true devotion; | |
| Yet though my tears and sighs to her be spent, | |
| Her cruel heart disdains what they do motion. | |
| Yet though persisting in eternal hate, | 5 |
| To aggravate the cause of my complaining, | |
| Her fury ne’er confineth with a date: | |
| I will not cease to love, for her disdaining. | |
| Such puny thoughts of unresolvèd ground, | |
| Whose inaudacity dares but base conceit, | 10 |
| In me and my love never shall be found: | |
| Those coward thoughts, unworthy minds await. | |
| But those that love well, have not yet begun; | |
| Persèver ever, and have never done! | | | | |
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